1,853 Quotes About Ambition

Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of.

America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited, with a hundred thousand veterans ready for combat.

Ambition is the last infirmity of noble minds.

I'm instinctively very suspicious and guarded, and I try to counteract it so much. I find reason allows you to be open, and my only sort of ambition in life is to try and be as open as possible.

We want a truly open society, in which every man and woman will be able to go as far as their talent, ambition and effort take them

Presidential ambition is a disease that can only be cured by embalming fluid .

To reign is worth ambition though in hell: Better to reign in hell, than serve in heav'n

The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day. Be famous then By wisdom; as thy empire must extend, So let extend thy mind o'er all the world.

Such joy ambition finds.